Improvement in needle-wrappers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OLIVER H. BLOOD AND F. O. TEEADWELL, JR., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS TO OLIVER H. BLOOD.

IMPROVEMENT IN NEEDLE-WRAPPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 40,305, dated October 13, 1863.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be. it known that we, OLIVER H. BLOOD and FRANCIS QTREADWELL, Jr., both of the city and county of New York, in the State of New York, have invented a certain new and usefullmprovement in Needle Wrappers; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and correct description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawings, and to the letters of reference thereon.

Our said invention and improvement in needle-wrappers consists in combining with an ordinary needle-wrapper or envelopesuch as in common use by needle manufacturersa piece of cloth of suitable texture and shape for a needle-holder, by attaching the clothv directly to the wrapper, substantially as hereinafter described, and shown in the drawings, of which- Figure lis aview ofthe ordinary needlewrapper, the folds being designated by lines a. Fig. 2 is a view of a slip of cotton cloth, the needle-holder shown with the needles, as used. Fig. 3 is a view of the wrapper with the cloth needle-holder combined with it, the needle-holder b shown open. Fig. 4 is a view ofthe wrapper with needle-holder shown folded over the needles at their ends.

The needleholder b is of the width of the fulded wrapper and long enough to i'oldover the ends ot' the needles. l t is made of cotton cloth of a light texture, and attached to the wrapper by gum or paste or any suitable adhesive material at the places designated by red lines c, leaving a place in the middle of the cloth needleholder not cemented to the wrapper.

We are aware that a piece of cloth used as a needle-holder has been cemented to a narrow slip ofpaper long enough to fold over the ends ot' the needles, but having no side flaps, which piece of paper, with the cloth, has been folded up in a needle-wrapper especially made to receive it, having a loop of paper attached to it, the loop being used to receive and hold the slip of paper and cloth needleholder, making a combination of four distinct pieces of' material-a complicated and expensive arrangement as compared with our simple combination of needle-holder and wrapper, which answers all purposes of holding and protecting the needles from rust, occasioned by the fingers in handling them. 1

l/Ve cla-im- As a new and useful article of manufacture, the improved needle-wrapper havinga needleholder directly combined with it, substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described.

O. H. BLOOD. F. C. TREADWELL, JR.

Witnesses:

D. C. BIRDsALL, CHARLES E. OWEN. 

